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Ucluelet's Emergency Service Department UCLUELET’S EMERGENCY SERVICE DEPARTMENT UCLUELET COUNCIL MEETING MAY 24, 2016 KARLA ROBISON – ENVIRONMENTAL AND EMERGENCY SERVICE MANAGER OUTLINE Upcoming Emergency Events . Shake Zone . Exercise Coastal Response / Staunch Maple PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS . District of Ucluelet . West Coast Inland Search and Rescue . Royal Canadian Mounted Police . Pacific Rim National Park Reserve . Ucluelet Volunteer Fire Bridge . Ucluelet Elementary School . British Columbia Ambulance Service . Emergency Social Services . Canadian Rangers . Royal Canadian Marine Search and . Canadian Coastguard Rescue . Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ Government SHAKE ZONE (QUAKE COTTAGE) The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) coordinated Shake Zone, a portable earthquake simulator to tour a variety of communities from Greater Vancouver and Vancouver Island. ■ When: May 1 (started in Vancouver - Science World) to June 7 (ends in Sechelt/Gibson) . June 2 - Ucluelet ■ Location: Secondary School ■ Duration: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm ■ Goal: To have students, residents and visitors experience the simulator, to learn about emergency preparedness, and to share their experience with colleagues, friends and family members › Emergency preparation is a shared responsibility › Drop, Cover, Hold and Evacuate to High Ground › The shaking experience will create a memory SHAKE ZONE Operations ■ Run 5-6 hours per day, plus 1 hour to set up and 1 hour to take down ■ Approximately 350 to 500 people can be put through the simulator ■ Signing of a ride waiver is required ■ Three people fit in the simulator ■ The simulator can go up to a ‘magnitude 8’ (not based on scientific data) ■ The intensity can be altered depending on the age and interest of the riders SHAKE ZONE Funding ■ IBC sponsored $11,000 US for transportation fees (from Eastern to Western Canada) plus an additional $2,000 CAD per day for operating fees for each community ■ The costs for Shake Zone for a 6-hour day is $2,700 US or approx. $3,500 CAD. IBC provided a donation of $2,000 . The Clayquot Biosphere Trust provided a donation of $1,200 . Westland Insurance provided a donation of $200 A big thank you to the Elementary and Secondary Schools, Clayoquot Biosphere Trust, Westland Insurance, and the Insurance Bureau of Canada for sponsoring this event! SHAKE ZONE Schedule – June 2, 2016 8:30 - 9:30 – Set up 9:30 - 10:00 – UES (28 students) 10:00 - 10:30 – UES (24 students) 10:30 - 11:00 – UES (29 students) 11:00 - 11:30 – UES (23 students) 11:30 - 11:55 – UES (24 students) 12:00 - 12:45 – Community 12:45 - 1:15 – USS 1:15 - 1:45 – USS 1:45 - 3:00 – USS 3:00 - 3:30 – Community 3:30 - 4:30 – Take down OVERVIEW: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE 2016 What is Exercise Coastal Response 2016? ■ Purpose: Provincial full-scale exercise to enhance provincial emergency response capabilities to a catastrophic earthquake ■ Date: June 7 to 10, 2016 ■ Location: Alberni-Clayquot Regional District, Ucluelet and Bamfield ■ Lead: Emergency Management British Columbia (EMBC) ■ Objectives: . Activate and test elements of BC’s Earthquake Immediate Response Plan (IRP) . Opportunity for other levels of government to test plans and build a common operating picture . Strengthen stakeholder relationships and engagement ■ Exercise Functions to be Tested: Medical, Mass Care, Emergency Operations, Strategic Communications, Logistics, and Telecommunications BACKGROUND: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE 2016 . First full scale disaster Exercise led by EMBC . Concentrates on coordination, control, planning and collaboration: . Allows detailed planning without the magnitude of the problem being overwhelming . Disaster scenario to bring out coordination aspects and test the new IRP . Linked with Exercise Cascadia Rising (USA), Pacific Quake (Federal) and Staunch Maple (Canadian Armed Forces - CAF) Scenario - National Impacts . Catastrophic damage along the west coast of the USA that would prevent assistance from any of the Western states . Involves conditions in Western Canada that will not impede delivery of Canadian relief support from East of the Rockies . Damage in the lower mainland will not impede delivery of Canadian relief support from East of the Rockies SCENARIO: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE 2016 Regional Impacts ■ Strong shaking in Greater Vancouver, Greater Victoria and South Vancouver Island ■ Some destruction in the major urban centres, but not to catastrophic levels ■ Major urban centres able to self-recover and will not require extensive assistance from provincial/national agencies ■ Damage will allow limited road deployment from the East into Port Alberni area and limited ship deployment to port facilities in the Victoria and Nanaimo area ■ Extensive communication and power outages across South West BC on Day 1 ■ Earthquake will generate a tsunami on the west coast of Vancouver Island ■ First 8-10 hours of the exercise, planned injects from the Master Scenario Events List (MSEL) will present information that of all the affected communities in southern BC ■ Port Alberni will have been impacted the worst SCENARIO: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE 2016 Local Impacts . Extensive blockage of roads, bridges and the ACRD airport . Extensive local damage and facility destruction . Significant utility breakages . Multiple power outages to ACRD and far West Coast . Widespread community/residential devastation . Significant number of casualties and displaced persons, including thousands of tourists in the ACRD/Ucluelet/Tofino area; beyond the ability of local and regional facilities to manage . Road, port and infrastructure will be severely impacted; including worst case tsunami caused inundation of the Port Alberni area . Tsunami effects in other coastal communities will not be as severe . Earthquake and tsunami will have created a catastrophic disaster in the Port Alberni area requiring an immediate response of federal and provincial assets SCENARIO: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE Road, port and infrastructure damage Facility destruction SCOPE: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake and Tsunami . Activate Local Authority Emergency Cooperation Centres (EOC), Provincial Regional Emergency Operation Centres (PREOC) and the Provincial Emergency Coordination Centres (PECC) . Notify Provincial Ministers . Declare a Provincial State of Emergency . Deployment of the Provincial Coordination Team (PCT) . Deployment of Vancouver’s Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (HUSAR) - Task Force 1 . Testing of staging area with federal partners in support of Logistics requirements PLANNING: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE 2016 Exercise Update . 1 year to prepare . $1 million budget PARTICIPANTS: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE 2016 PLANNING: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE 2016 Exercise Control PLANNING: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE 2016 Exercise Evaluators PLANNING: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE 2016 OVERVIEW: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE / STAUNCH MAPLE June 7 to 10, 2015 Exercises in Ucluelet that are linked with Exercise Coastal Response and Staunch Maple (Canadian National Defense exercise). Tuesday, June 7 – Day 1 in Ucluelet and Port Alberni . Exercise begins / earthquake strikes . EOCs, PREOCs and PECC will be activated - Ucluelet’s EOC is open and will provide situation reports to VI PREOC . Event information will be received by the PREOCs and PECC . Information disseminated to all Ministries . Activation of simulated Central Coordination Group (CCG) and Ministers-Deputies Emergency Committee (M-DEC) . Provincial State of Emergency declared . PCT and HUSAR Task Force 1 will be activated and dispatched . Provincial Staging Areas and Regional Staging Areas will be activated . CAF conducts an aerial survey over the impacted area UCLUELET: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE Tuesday, June 7 – Ucluelet’s Annual Community Tsunami Evacuation Drill . 6:45 pm – A magnitude 8.2 earthquake occurred in Alaska and has generated a tsunami aimed southeast along the coast of North America. Based on the 1946 Magnitude 7.4 earthquake, the tsunami should reach Ucluelet in approximately 4 hours (around 10:45 pm) with waves approximately 2 to 4 meters. Strong currents and repeating waves are expected. 6:47 pm – The first NTWC statement came through at 6:47 pm stating a Tsunami Warning is in effect for the BC coast . 6:50 pm – The District of Ucluelet will test their internal and external communications systems . Internal - notify First Responders and Emergency Personnel via Team Connect . External - notify residents and visitors via Team Connect . 7:00 to 8:00 pm – The Emergency Committee will activate the EOC at the Fire Hall . Activate the EOC, obtain a Task Number from the VI PREOC, Conduct an exercise briefing . Fire Hall siren will sound at approximately 7:00 pm to notify residents that the exercise is starting and will be tested intermittently until 8:00 pm . Declare a State of Local Emergency . EOC operations UCLUELET: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE Tuesday, June 7 – Continue… . 7:00 to 8:00 pm – First Responders - Fire, Police, and Search and Rescue will conduct mock evacuations for homes located in low-lying areas . 7:00 to 8:00 pm – Ucluelet’s Emergency Social Services team will activate the Reception Centre at the Secondary School Band Room . 7:00 to 8:00 pm – Residents and visitors will evacuate to the main community safe zone . 8:00 to 8:30 pm – Debrief PORT ALBERNI: EXERCISE COASTAL RESPONSE Wednesday, June 8 – Day 2 ■ Karla is participating with EOC operations in Port Alberni ■ Local ACRD officials to visit key sites - Ucluelet’s ACRD Board Director is invited to attend ■ Various emergency scenarios in Port Alberni - EOC operations,
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